Ertuğrul Apakan (born 1947) is a Turkish diplomat. Ambassador Apakan was the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine between 2 April 2014 and 30 May 2019. Ambassador Apakan has had a longstanding diplomatic career, most recently as the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations (2009 – 2012) and as Undersecretary at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006 – 2009).

Early history and professional life

Apakan was born in

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, Izmir, Turkey. He graduated from Bornova Anatolian High School and

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, Faculty of Political Science (1969) and completed his master's degree in economics at the

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in Izmir. Apakan joined the Turkish Foreign Ministry in 1971. After many diplomatic duties, he was the ambassador to

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from 1996 to 2000. Apakan served as Deputy Under-Secretary for Bilateral Political Affairs from 2004 to 2006 and as the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from December 2006 until August 2009. He became the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations in New York in August 2009. During September 2010, Apakan was the

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of the

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. He also chaired

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in 2010. On 2 April 2014 he was appointed Chief Monitor of the

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Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. He was replaced in this position by

Yaşar Halit Çevik Yaşar Halit Çevik, (born 1955 in Gölcük, Kocaeli, Turkey) is a Turkish ambassador. Private life and education He finished in 1978 his studies at the department of international relationships at the Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakült ...

in 2019.

References

"Official Website of the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the UN"
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'', 2011-04-03 1947 births Living people Ambassadors of Turkey to Northern Cyprus Permanent Representatives of Turkey to the United Nations Turkish diplomats Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences alumni Ege University alumni People from Bornova {{turkey-diplomat-stub